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Thursday, August 29, 2019

I moved my desk again recently, which gave me the chance to tidy up a bit and photograph my 15mm skirmish force that I previewed in the last post.

Shown are a German Panzergrenadier platoon (Battlefront metal figures) and support assets (nearly all Old Glory cast Command Decision).

The three squads of the platoon are based on what I will euphemistically call "19mm copper clad zinc disks", with larger versions of the disks for the machine gun teams. The best part about this basing is that it cost mere pennies. Then I increased the cost by buying self-adhesive magnetic disks, which you can see to the right of the picture. PzG platoons are small and thus brittle, but very shooty with all those machine guns. (and I had them on hand)

I clearly like all of the additional assets! Happily, everything here except the MMG squad was drawn from my reserves of miniatures, since 13 years ago or so I had the idea that I would like to play Flames of War and bought a couple of kilograms of metal to that end. The grey painted Panzer IV and the SdKfz 251 have been on my painting desk since then...

What I do not have are on board mortars, forward observers, medic, or any panzerschreck teams. Or terrain, rules, or an opposing force...

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Hello blog followers. Sorry that it has been so long since the last post. I would give excuses about being busy with this, that, and the other, but really I was just not doing a lot of hobby, and for whatever reason did not want to blog about other things.

I have been painting those Night Goblins from my prior post, and have them nearly finished. Then again they have been nearly finished for a couple of months, so we will see how long it takes me to actually get them done done.

Even though I have not been hobbying that much, I have (as one does) been on Ebay, which is pretty dangerous. I managed to lose a bunch of bids, which is good, if frustrating, but did win this WHFB dwarf lot...

That is an old Marauder organ gun, a mostly complete bolt thrower, a steam 'coptor, a mess of crew dwarves, and some random warmachine pieces. Plus eight monopose plastic dwarves and three newer dwarves that fit in with my army. And Burlock Damminson.

Once I had bought something, it was easier for something else to fall into the cart...

In this case a 210x150cm "tapestry" that will work very nicely as a play mat for space games, as seen in the next picture.

And finally, if various projects are stymied by having a lack of time, and you just unexpectedly bought some new miniatures for an old army, then naturally you should be starting a different and completely incompatible project...

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Midway through last month, I took advantage of the annual Brigade Miniatures holiday sale to order some bases and a few other things (it was pretty hard to resist testing out 15mm scifi, or getting a swath of space ships). I ordered on the 14th, and it made it to my house on the 24th, which is pretty impressive for international shipping, particularly during the holiday season.

The main thrust of my purchase was to get these nifty bases that Brigade has for use with my Trek project. I figure these bases will be great for tracking drones, missiles, plasma, fighters, and shuttles. Each base is comprised of a metal hex with a die dock in the top, and a 3mm hole for a flight stem. I got three varieties of micro dice to fit in the docks, and I will either use spare GW flight stems or buy some 3mm acrylic rod.

Shown with GW flight stem

I also bought a few packs of space fighters and other ships for multiple uses. They could be used as fighters and shuttles in a Trek game, or on their own as micro fighters in a space game, such as 5150: Fighter Command by THW. (which allows for solo play too)

Here is a sample of the fighters and other light craft.

Courier to fighters

In addition to the "good guy" fighters, I got a transport and a corvette, as well as a pack of enemy fighters.

Anyway, a great buy from Brigade Miniatures, and inches me closer to having a complete Trek gaming set. Now if only the magnets I ordered from China would show up.

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Happily for me (but not for my budget), the next Age of Sigmar army is "Gloomspite Gitz" which rounds up the Night goblins, Forest Goblins, and trolls into one army and adds quite a few new figures. Here are some that have caught my eye:

The bad goblin himself

Plastic Squig hoppers!

Troll King

Goblin cave terrain

In addition to these there are also an alternate build for the squig hoppers (with lances!), squig herd, a box of various drugged out shamans, new (tall) stone trolls, plastic mangler squigs, and several more.

Looks like GW is keeping up the frenetic pace they have been on, which is great for new models, but terrible for those of us with limited time and budgets!

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Naturally I bought some of my own ships during the sale (why not save more?) and they arrived just after Christmas.

I got six Confederation frigates of three classes, five Imperial escorts of two classes, two more D6s, and a sprue of shuttles. The printing seems to have come out perfectly, except that the sprue for the Imperial escorts was twisted and one of the frigates popped off its sprue.

I have an order of bases from Brigade Miniatures to go with these, and some magnets from eBay coming from China, and then I can get them based up and off to primer.

Looking forward to painting these sometime soon... at least before I buy a Unionist or Star Empire fleet!

Monday, December 31, 2018

I hope Santa brought you what you wanted. (or if not that there are post Christmas sales that you took advantage of).

I spent the weekend prior to Christmas safely ensconced in the family mountain retreat, and managed to get a few games in. We played a ton of Codenames, and a round of Risk Legacy. Checking the board, it was the first time we played Risk Legacy since 1/1/2017!

All those games and I have never won...

Risk legacy still is not my favorite game, but it is great fun to play with the same people over and over, and see what happens in the game as we unlock or otherwise change things on the board.

While we were playing other games, the younger girls got their own game of Stragego together.

They assured me that they knew what they were doing.

I managed to convince my wife that my nephews needed Blitz Bowl for Christmas, and they were more than a little bit excited about it.

They could not wait to open it, and got it assembled before Christmas Dinner! Three of us assembled figures, and all three were stabbed with the blades and spikes, so working as intended I guess. I tried not to be too much of a stickler for cleaning off the sprues and such, but I may show up with a hobby knife and a file sometime and smooth those figures out!

As far as my own loot, I got the D&D Art and Arcana book, a gift card to the FLGS from my mother in law, and Saw's Renegades for X-Wing from my sister.